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Sharing in AR, Today and Tomorrow

Putting It Together

By assembling author, recipient, subject, location, and content together, we can craft AR sharing controls that make these use cases possible:

Alice shares a board game session with Bob in her dining room.
Charlie shares the virtual HVAC sensors with Daniel, a new hire at the University.
Erin builds a 3D model of a long demolished mansion on the site of its former location and shares her creation with her local history group.

What is Underway Now

Ubiquity 6

Since the last post, Ubiquity 6 has surfaced as an AR platform for sharing and editing AR content.

VERSES

Just last week VERSES left stealth mode and launched a new blockchain token expressly for AR applications: indexing spaces and smart objects. Blockchain (and more specifically smart contracts) represents an entirely new family of geospatial indices — one which offers to trade the advantages of decentralization with the challenges of blockchain adoption.

Unity Project MARS

Even better than a global AR sharing platform would be developer tools and services that allow for AR sharing across otherwise fragmented applications.

Just a few weeks ago Timoni West, the Director of XR Research at Unity, presented one of the first detailed looks at Unity’s Project MARS — Mixed and Augmented Reality Studio.